Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.For this cause I also suffer these things.Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.
2 Timothy 1:8-18 (World English Bible)